Day: September 25, 2015

The famous Mojave Phone Booth gets re-famous

It’s not an urban legend, but sure has the feel of one..

Imagine a phone booth. Tucked in the desert.. in the middle of no man’s land.. And the phone is ringing–people from around the world are calling.

And someone answers.

It’s all true.

There is a famous story of a phone booth in the Mojave Desert.. It had a different area code in 1997 when it first became famous. Now it’s 760-733-9969 ..\

It was installed in the 1960s, and it’s eight miles from the nearest paved road, and fifteen miles from a highway.

According to REALITY, it was originally installed to provide phone service to miners. Of course, paranormal chatters and purveyors of creepiness don’t like fully told reality, so it’s cooler to think the whole thing was a mystery.

There was a surge of traffic and calls to the booth after a 1999 LA TIMES story detailed the Mojave phone booth. From that pre-turn of the century report:

The craze began two years ago after a high-desert wanderer noticed a telephone icon on a Mojave road map. Curious, he drove out from Los Angeles to investigate and wrote a letter to a counterculture magazine describing his exploits and including the phone number. After spotting the letter, computer entrepreneur Godfrey Daniels became so captivated by the idea he created the first of several Web sites dedicated solely to the battered booth.
Since then, word of the phone has been beamed to computers virtually everywhere.
It has evolved into a worldwide listening post straight from the mind of a Rod Serling or a David Lynch, captivating countless callers.


Last night on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, the whole notion became famous again. Lewis was chatting about the notion of space, and making a call to the wild dark wonders of the universe in hopes that someone would answer. It compared it to the Mojave phone booth.. He gave the number out on the air, as did people on his Facebook page, and the calls lit up quickly.

I called myself a few times today.

At one point I heard someone proclaiming Jesus’ love for her.. a few moments later I called again and heard someone having a complete mental breakdown.

I talked to someone who gave himself a somewhat dirty name.

And I also heard strange voices and people pretending to be freaky and creepy.

It was good fun.

Tonight the conversation was more interesting, with Ground Zero fans coming together to speak about issues, get to know each other.. and just talk.

In our NET world, it’s fun to actually talk to someone. That is the theory of Periscope and why, I believe, it’s so popular so quickly.

And perhaps the Mojave phone booth can be the same.

For those wondering, you’re not calling a phone booth anymore.

As reported in 2013, The Mojave phone booth’s number, 760-733-9969, was acquired from the CLEC by phone phreak Lucky225 on July 31, 2013 and now rings using voice over IP. Originally, callers joined a conference where strangers could once again connect just like when the phone booth was active..

And now, lots of people are rediscovering something that became somewhat of a strange bit of lure and legend of the desert back in the 90s..
All over again.

Party line

I called 760-733-9969 a few times since Clyde Lewis mentioned it on his show last night.. Though I had heard about the famed Mojave desert phone booth many times over, I had forgotten it returned a few years ago thanks to someone who bought the line and made a conference call bridge out of it..

Obviously with the newfound attention of Ground Zero listeners, the number has a vast possibility of gaining traction all over again..

The call this morning was at times annoying, frantic, strange, bizarre.. Creepy. People speaking about Jesus and also crying out about the devil. At one point when there were only about six people on it, I actually had a bit of a meaningful conversation with the people talking..

I promise this: Some more urban legend and desert facts about the Mojave phone booth will be coming after I conduct more research.. And also more phone calls will be placed to hear the shenanigans and strangeness greeting me on the other end..

Certainly hope Clyde Lewis does another show about it in total..

Call and ye shall answer

I called 760-733-9969 a few times since Clyde Lewis mentioned it on his show last night.. Though I had heard about the famed Mojave desert phone booth many times over, I had forgotten it returned a few years ago thanks to someone who bought the line and made a conference call bridge out of it..

Obviously with the newfound attention of Ground Zero listeners, the number has a vast possibility of gaining traction all over again..

The call this morning was at times annoying, frantic, strange, bizarre.. Creepy. People speaking about Jesus and also crying out about the devil. At one point when there were only about six people on it, I actually had a bit of a meaningful conversation with the people talking..

I promise this: Some more urban legend and desert facts about the Mojave phone booth will be coming after I conduct more research.. And also more phone calls will be placed to hear the shenanigans and strangeness greeting me on the other end..

Certainly hope Clyde Lewis does another show about it in total..

NEWS ROUNDUP FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25 2015

Dire predictions are over.. my world did not end. Did yours? The detractors may say that the end times could still happen any day at any time–even up until the blood moon on Sunday. Which saddens me a bit . I checked the weather.. That night, while the full red moon gets eclipsed, it looks like it will be cloudy. With a chance of End Times.

The news of the day may not be as dire as fireballs reigning from the sky, but as usual, it’s a collection of the insane and inane, tragic and wondrous all at the same time..

Stampede at Hajj kills up to 700–the death toll is still climbing.. MORE: Journalist Khaled Al-Maeena said he believes pilgrims rushing to finish could have been the main reason for the stampede. “People like to do the first stoning in the morning,” he told CNN from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia…

New Yorkers have two choices: See the Pope. Or buy a new iPhone..

Putin plans campaign against ISIS without or without the United States..

A new study says that Americans eat all day long..

The newest MUPPETS show coming to ABC is being called ‘perverted’ by a conservative group ONE 
MILLION MOMS..


Family credits Pope Francis with healing baby..

Modern man: Art Bell has a YouTube channel..

From the BBC: A question for the future and the ages. Who owns outer space? I would tend to think that if other life forms dominate space, we never will own it and certainly better not try buying..

BEN CARSON says the idea of evolution is from ‘hell’..


New images from Mars have, as usual, caused a sensation.. Could this circular stone formation be the Stonehenge of the Red Planet? Could it be the remnants of a past civilization, death from a climactic change? Could it be..stones?


Video emerges showing cops in Delaware shooting a man in a wheel chair.. A relative calls the death an execution.. Cops say he had a gun. A relative says he had a book bag..


This is a cool story.. the famous MOJAVE PHONE BOOTH is back.. Would you be willing to try giving a call to number 760-733-9969? If so, who knows you will answer..

What it’s like to be a horror movie scream queen..